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Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of Lawsuits

Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of LawsuitsATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia has stopped awarding a prominent minority scholarship because of lawsuits targeting the school’s use of race in admissions policy. University officials say the Holmes-Hunter Scholarship, which gives $1,500 a year to a Black student with strong academic and leadership potential, was not […]

July 19, 2000

Tuskegee, Michigan State Collaborate on Human Genome Implications

Tuskegee, Michigan State Collaborate on Human Genome ImplicationsDETROIT — The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Tuskegee University are collaborating on a Communities of Color and Genetics Policy project to educate minorities about genetic research and gather opinions on guidelines so that genetic information isn’t used as a basis for discrimination or misused in […]

July 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Court Rules for Md. College in Race Discrimination Suit

Court Rules for Md. College in Race Discrimination SuitARNOLD, Md. — A former vice president of Anne Arundel Community College has lost another round in her race discrimination suit against the school’s board of trustees and president.The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., unanimously upheld a verdict against Dr. Augustine Pounds, who […]

July 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI News Briefs

Doctoral Program Decision Deferred in BaltimoreBALTIMORE — A decision on new doctoral programs at two Baltimore-area public universities, opposed by Morgan State University on the grounds they would unnecessarily duplicate programs at the predominantly Black school, has been deferred, state education officials said late last month. The programs will not be approved before the commission […]

June 21, 2000

War Criminals And Desegregation

War Criminals And DesegregationMay 17 was the 47th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court finding in Brown vs. Board of Education. That finding was, of course, more than a simple court ruling. It was a finding that the court said should be implemented “with all deliberate speed,” as if words like deliberate and speed should […]

June 7, 2000

Cheers, Jeers Greet Daytona’s Handling Of Black College Reunion

Cheers, Jeers Greet Daytona’s Handling Of Black College Reunion DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Officials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are praising local businesses for making Black College Reunion participants feel welcome here last month. But the event left the owner of the Adam’s Mark luxury hotel chain wondering how he […]

April 26, 2000

African-American

Golf Books’ Authors Miss a Few Shots, but Play Good Rounds

Golf Books’ Authors Miss a Few Shots, but Play Good Rounds When Tiger Woods came onto the Professional Golf Association tour in 1996, there were no full-time African American players on the tour. Jim Thorpe, the last Black player with a regular tour card, was a part-time member of the regular tour, awaiting his 50th […]

April 26, 2000

BI News Briefs

Adam’s Mark Settles Discrimination SuitST. LOUIS — The Adam’s Mark luxury hotel chain agreed late last month to pay $8 million, revise its policies and seek minority customers in the settlement of a race-discrimination lawsuit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the U.S. Department of Justice, the state of Florida and […]

April 12, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Challenging Times for Livingstone College

Challenging Times for Livingstone CollegeWhite professors allege discrimination, president resignsSALISBURY, N.C. — Five professors who say they were denied tenure and promotions because they are White are suing Livingstone College. Three of the professors, who filed a racial discrimination suit in Rowan County Superior Court, say they have documents showing a pattern of racial discrimination […]

March 29, 2000

BI News Briefs

Judge OKs Settlement in White Student’s Discrimination SuitTULSA, Okla. — A federal judge earlier this month approved a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit filed by a White student who contended that Oklahoma higher-education officials unfairly denied him a scholarship.University of Tulsa student Matthew Pollard filed his lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education […]

March 29, 2000

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON — If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice System

Nullifying Inequities in the Criminal Justice SystemWASHINGTON — If you were a brilliant, well-trained African-American male who hoped to be tenured at an elite White law school, the last thing to do would be to advance a legal theory that supports letting Black criminal defendants go free — even when they are guilty. Yet that […]

March 15, 2000

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